Carl Sandburg wrote a piece for the "International Socialist Review" casting IWW leader William "Big Bill" Haywood, imprisoned along with the rest of the IWW leadership on wartime sedition charges, as a kind of 20th-century John Brown, & another piece on Haywood for the "Chicago Daily News".

http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/%20bill_haywood/

1894 -- Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, dies in poverty.

This bent metal serpent/ holy horn with lids like beer mug/ with phallic tail why did they invent you before Coleman Hawkins was born ?

"We propose to stay there indefinitely in working out this good that we propose to do them."

This "good" would be called terrorism by any decent people.

"In November 1901, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger reported:

'The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement; our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners & captives, active insurgents & suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a dog...."

4,165 US troops, 10,000-20,000 guerrillas & 200,000+ civilians are killed in the next four years.

Worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt. Participated with the surrealists, but refused to join the Communist Party with Andre Breton, whom he made fun of in "Mort d'un monsieur". A talented screen writer, his credits include "The Children of Paradise."

http://monde-libertaire.info/citation/prevert.gif

1921 -- Chile: Massacre at San Gregorio leaves 565 nitrateminers dead. Hot on the heels of the 1920 post-war depressionthe employers are on the offensive & from 1921 to 1923 aresuccessful in beating back the unions.http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/la/chile/

Daillo died from 19 gunshot wounds (great shots these cops). The four shooters were later indicted for 2nd degree murder. Surprisingly most cops who murder their victims are never convicted...

& these four are — surprise! — acquitted.

2005 -- US: We can't make stuff up like this department:

Its fun to shoot people... It's a hoot...

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/general.shoot/index.html

Adopt a sniper...shot down:

Students were selling bracelets bearing the motto "1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide."